Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Apprentice
AVARA FOODS LTD
Derby, Hereford, Market Rasen, Northants, Telford
Closes on Wednesday 31 December 2025
Posted on 21 November 2025
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Summary
You will be working with the Sustainability Team and be responsible for managing sustainability data with reporting requirements to fulfil both internally and externally. You will also support the development and application of sustainability assessment tools to improve the management and reduction of carbon, waste, water and raw materials.
- Wage
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£26,000 a year
- Training course
- Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 8.30 am to 5 pm with some flexibility on start/finish times.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Sunday 1 February 2026
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Key responsibilities include:
- Responsibility for Avara’s sustainability data, ensuring that it is robust and auditable
- Analysing data to provide insight into current performance, progress against KPIs and identifying best practice and potential opportunities to further progress our sustainability credentials
- Working with internal and external partners to help define appropriate feedback on sustainability KPI’s and targets to support the Avara sustainability agenda
- Working as part of a project team to deliver central environmental data analysis
- Contributing to the annual Avara Responsible Business Report and internal engagement programmes
- Full UK driving licence, you will be required to travel to different site locations
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- Holly Bank Farm, Scropton Road, Scropton, Derby, DE65 5PS
- Grandstand Road, Hereford, HR4 9PB
- North Kelsey Road, Caistor, Market Rasen, LN7 6SH
- Buckingham Road, Brackley, Northants, NN13 7DN
- Hortonwood 60, Telford, TF1 7GL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD
Training course
Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
- Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
- Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
- Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
- Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
- Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
- Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
- Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
- Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
- Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
- Adjust leadership style to achieve results, having regard to the needs of the individual/teams involved.
- Select data that is relevant to the CR&S issue being considered.
- Analyse data to form evidence-based conclusions on CR&S performance.
- Deliver CR&S events in accordance with contractual arrangements.
- Quality assure own and others work in accordance with organisational requirements
- Contribute to reporting externally on CR&S Strategy and delivery in line with industry and legislative requirements.
- Identify own organisations CR&S opportunities and threats. Escalate risks within own organisation when needed.
- Research the CR&S landscape, escalating best practice opportunities within own organisation.
- Apply management techniques needed to deliver CR&S projects within budget.
- Train colleagues in CR&S techniques, tailoring the learning style to the circumstances.
- Identify and deliver initiatives that may raise funds for CR&S projects.
- Identify and apply relevant IT solutions to CR&S issues.
- Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
- Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
- Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
- Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
- Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
- Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
- Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
- Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
- Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
- Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
- Adjust leadership style to achieve results, having regard to the needs of the individual/teams involved.
- Select data that is relevant to the CR&S issue being considered.
- Analyse data to form evidence-based conclusions on CR&S performance.
- Deliver CR&S events in accordance with contractual arrangements.
- Quality assure own and others work in accordance with organisational requirements
- Contribute to reporting externally on CR&S Strategy and delivery in line with industry and legislative requirements.
- Identify own organisations CR&S opportunities and threats. Escalate risks within own organisation when needed.
- Research the CR&S landscape, escalating best practice opportunities within own organisation.
- Apply management techniques needed to deliver CR&S projects within budget.
- Train colleagues in CR&S techniques, tailoring the learning style to the circumstances.
- Identify and deliver initiatives that may raise funds for CR&S projects.
- Identify and apply relevant IT solutions to CR&S issues.
Training schedule
The successful applicant will complete a Level 4 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability apprenticeship.
To meet the requirements of the programme apprentices, need to spend 6 hours a week undertaking off-the-job learning, which will include:
- Formal training, including online learning and learning events
- 1-2-1s with your apprenticeship coach and line manager
- Observing and shadowing colleagues
- Writing up learning reflections for your portfolio
To successfully complete the qualification, apprentices need to complete an End Point Assessment.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Full UK Driving Licence
Other requirements
Applicant may be required to travel to other sites within the organisation.
About this employer
Avara Foods is one of the UK’s largest food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the nation’s most popular supermarkets and restaurants. We are a fully integrated business controlling the whole product supply chain, which include feed mills, farms, hatcheries and factories with associated transport and logistics functions that employ more than 5000 people. This is achieved by investing in people, utilising the latest technology and being uncompromising in our commitment to high quality and food standards.
http://www.avarafoods.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
31 days holiday allowance 3% pension Various lifestyle benefits, cashback perks, exclusive shopping discounts and discounted cinema tickets. Wellbeing resources, free online health advice & support, and wellbeing assessments.
After this apprenticeship
The right candidate may move into full-time employment with Avara Foods and opportunities for further development in line with their future career aspirations.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001771.
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Closes on Wednesday 31 December 2025
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